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Joe Clancy The My Lady’s Manor timber course puts up a big screen to help spectators see the meandering, undulating, historic track. Saturday, trainer Eddie Graham stood with his wife Wendi – ready to watch Nat Grew go in the featured Manor timber stakes.
Anybody in racing in the late 1980s knew Broad Brush. He bolted toward the outside fence in the Pennsylvania Derby – and won anyway. He wore a bridle and bit that looked like something from Man o’ War’s day. Trainer Dickie Small took the horse on van rides for entertainment and relaxation.
Icabad Crane had a busy week. On Wednesday, he returned to trainer Phillip Dutton’s West Grove, Pa., base after spending the past three months at Dutton’s winter quarters in Aiken, S.C. But while the horse headed south at the beginning of the year as an eventing prospect, he returns as a winner.
Prominent Maryland trainer Richard (Dickie) Small, who conditioned 1994 Breeders’ Cup Classic winner Concern, died late Friday night after a battle with cancer. He was 68 years old.
Willie McCarthy called Arch Kingsley about a prospect early in 2013 and, like all good steeplechase trainers, Kingsley listened. The horse was 4, a gelding, with three wins from six starts – all on the turf. Kingsley looked up the race record and pedigree, thought about it.
I’m glad there was no hidden camera in the barn when I got in the fight with the King’s Bishop colt at Delaware Park all those years ago. He nearly killed me, and I broke the handle of a pitchfork when I hit him across the back. I’m sure I swore at him. Sorry. And he barely flinched.
On the eve of Keeneland’s spring meet, Jonathan Sheppard assessed his stable and threw cold water – again.
Somewhere last week, someone who owns a Thoroughbred racehorse went to work and faced the questions.
Inimitable Romanee is a homebred for Gallagher’s Stud. Sort of. She was bred by a limited liability corporation called Gallagher’s Shiraz and races for Gallagher’s Stud. Despite the names, they are not one in the same.
Martini Brother spent the winter – the long, cold, snowy, icy, wicked, relentless winter – at trainer Jonathan Sheppard’s Ashwell Stable in Pennsylvania, but that doesn’t mean the 6-year-old steeplechaser is behind schedule.
